“Moving Islands: Fall Writers’ Festival,” celebrating
authors of Oceania and the Caribbean, will be held 8, 9, 10, and 12 November
2004 on the UH Mānoa campus. The annual festival of the UHM English Department
is being undertaken in collaboration with the EWC-UH Islands of Globalization
Project, with support from the Center for Pacific Islands Studies and other
campus units. The festival will bring together internationally renowned writers
for a week of world-class literature and island perspectives on globalization. The
festival, which is open to the public, free of charge, will feature keynote
addresses, literary readings, and panel presentations by George Lamming (via video), Albert Wendt, Michelle Cliff, Witi Ihimaera,
Nalo Hopkinson, Jully Makini, Rodney Morales, Noenoe Silva,
and Steven Winduo.

Witi Ihimaera is taking part in the festival as a
participant in the UH Distinguished Lecture Series. He will also appear at a
screening of his film Whale Rider in the
UHM–Bank of Hawai‘i Cinema Series, on Friday, 12 November, at 6:00 pm in the UH
Architecture Auditorium. Admission to the film is $3.00. For more information,
see the festival website at http://www.english.hawaii.edu/events/celeb04.html.

“Body Language: Adornment & Identity in the Pacific,” an
exploration of the Pacific Islands’ rich history of cultural change, adaptation
and resistance, evolution in gender roles, and more, will debut at Mission
Houses Museum in Honolulu, 5 November 2004. The objects in the exhibition—from
feathered capes and headdresses to fiber and kapa clothing, tattoos, leis, jewelry, and cosmetics—will provide numerous
points of departure for exploring societal beliefs and values, the effects of
cross-cultural contact, and the use of motifs, materials, and technology. The
exhibition program includes public lectures, workshops and gallery talks, and
demonstrations and performances.

The Center for Pacific Islands Studies is providing support
for the exhibition, which is also receiving support from the Hawai‘i Council
for the Humanities and the Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation. The exhibition
runs through 5 February 2005. For more information contact the museum at
808-531-0481.

EWC Announces US–South Pacific Islands Scholarship Competition

The East-West Center, in Honolulu, has announced the
opening of the 2004 United States–South Pacific Scholarship Program
Competition. Priority fields of study are environmental sciences, information
technology and management, public administration, public policy, business
administration, and journalism. Individuals from the Cook Islands, Fiji,
Kiribati, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Sāmoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, and
Vanuatu who are seeking bachelors’ and masters’ degrees are eligible for the
competitive, merit-based scholarship awards. All students reside on the
East-West Center campus for a significant portion of the award period. The
application deadline is 1 February 2005.
For more information and application materials, see http://pidp.eastwestcenter.org/pidp/Awards/spsaward1.htm.

Fale Pasifika Opens at Auckland University

History will be made at Auckland University with the 2
October 2004 opening of the magnificent Fale Pasifika. The fale complex will house the Centre for Pacific Studies
staff and students. The program for the opening celebrations, 4–13 October,
includes three Macmillan Brown Lectures by Professor Albert Wendt, currently Citizens’ Chair at the
UH Mānoa English Department. Among the other events are the University of
Auckland Pacific Postgraduate Scholars’ second symposium, “Talanoa on the
Diasporic Mat,” with Sir Thomas Davis as the keynote speaker, and Samoan,
Tokelauan, Tuvaluan, and Fijian celebrations. David Hanlon will represent the UH Center for Pacific Islands
Studies at the opening. For more information on the event, see the Centre for
Pacific Studies website at http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/departments/index.cfm?S=D_PACIFIC
.

Advanced Tahitian Dance at UH Mānoa

The UHM Music Department has instituted a new advanced
course in Tahitian Dance, in response to student requests for intensive
training and expanded performance opportunities. The course is taught by Jane
Freeman Moulin and supplements the
popular Tahitian Dance Ensemble, which draws over 40 students each semester.
Students in the new course will perform in Honolulu at Bishop Museum’s Family
Sunday on 10 October at 4:00 pm.

UH Pacific Collection to Close for Winter Break

UH Library’s Special Collections, including the Hawaiian
and Pacific Collections, anticipates being closed during winter break (20
December 2004–9 January 2005). The collections will be closed while the reading
room ceiling and lights are demolished and redone. Check the special
collections website at http://www.hawaii.edu/speccoll/
for the latest updates regarding the closure.

Writer and film director Sima Urale, the inaugural artist in the Fulbright–Creative New
Zealand Pacific Writers’ Residency at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies,
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, will be at the university until 9 November.
Urale was awarded the residency in order to develop a draft of her first
feature film, Moana. In addition to
working on the screenplay, she has been extraordinarily generous with her time
in the community, visiting classes, working with high school students,
mentoring other filmmakers, and giving talks on her wide-ranging work in film.

“Culture Moves! Dance in Oceania from Hiva to Hip Hop,”
will be held 9–12 November 2005 at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
in Wellington, New Zealand. Dr Epeli Hau‘ofa,
founding director of the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture, University of the
South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, and Dr Adrienne Kaeppler,
dance ethnologist, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC, will be the conference keynote speakers.

The gathering will encompass traditional, contemporary, and
hip-hop dance and include three nights and one day of performances by
professional, high school, and community groups, as well as individuals. During
the day, there will be discussion sessions on the history, choreography, music,
contexts, politics, and documenting of dance in Oceania, as well as performance
workshops. The Pacific collection at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa
Tongarewa will host a costume exhibition.

The conference sponsors are the University of Hawai‘i at
Mānoa and the UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies, Pacific Studies at
Victoria University of Wellington, and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
The conveners are Katerina Teaiwa,
April Henderson, and Sean Mallon. For general enquiries, please
contact Teaiwa at teaiwa@hawaii.eduor Henderson at April.Henderson@vuw.ac.nz. For
enquiries on documenting the dance and the associated exhibition, contact
Mallon at seanm@tepapa.govt.nz. The
convenors are soliciting submissions for the performances, as well as
registration of interest by those planning to attend. Information on the
conference, submission instructions, and a pre-registration form will be posted
at http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis
by mid-October 2004.

The EWC-UH Islands of Globalization Project, a joint
endeavor of the EWC Pacific Islands Development Program and UH Center for
Pacific Islands Studies, is cosponsoring a Pacific-Caribbean Film Series,
curated by Esther Figueroa. The schedule
for the series, which will run through May 2005, has been programmed through
December 2004. Sima Urale’s films O Tamaiti,
Still Life, and Velvet
Dreams opened the series on 24 September.
Other films this semester include

·1
October — Daughters of the Dust (1991),
which chronicles two pivotal days in 1902 in the life of the Peazant family,
descendants of enslaved Africans who reside on the Gullah-speaking islands of
the coast of South Carolina and Georgia

·8
October — Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), a
story of an epic journey home, across Australia, undertaken by three children
who were removed from their families in the 1930s

·15
October — Dancehall Queen (1997), a
modern-day Cinderella story, set in a Kingston, Jamaica, ghetto

·22
October — The Agronomist (2003), a
profile of Haitian radio journalist and human rights activist Jean Dominique

·29
October — Since the Company Came (2000),
a documentary about a Solomon Islands community’s struggle to come to terms
with the disruptive effects of a logging operation

·5
November — A World of Ideas: Derek Walcott
(1988) and Derek Walcott: Pantomime
(1980), films about one of the world’s greatest poets and playwrights

·12
November — Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree
(1989). Albert Wendt, in person;
adapted from his novel of the same name

·19
November — An Island Invaded (2004).
Esther Figueroa, in person; her
documentary about the island of Guam during World War II, as told through
personal narratives of Guam residents

·3
December — Aku Ingin Menciummu Sekali Safa: Birdman Tale (2003), feature film by Garin Nugroho, which focuses on the Papuans,
their lives, and their struggle for independence.

The films will be shown in Burns Hall 3121/3125 at 12:00
pm. For information, call the East-West Center at 808-944-7745, or visit the
Islands of Globalization Project website at http://www.movingislands.net .

Four students at UH Mānoa were awarded Foreign Language and
Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for 2004–2005. The fellowships are part of a US
Department of Education Title VI grant awarded to the Center for Pacific
Islands Studies. The fellowships carry a stipend of $14,000 plus tuition and
are awarded specifically for study of a Pacific language.

The recipients, all graduate students, are

·Shawn
Barnes, Department of
Anthropology, who will be studying Samoan at UH Mānoa and, during a semester
abroad, at University of Auckland. Shawn began his language study as a US Peace
Corps Volunteer and teacher in
Sāmoa;

·Aurelia
Kinslow, Center for Pacific
Islands Studies, who will be studying Tahitian and is interested in the revival
and spread of Tahitian dance;

·Alex
Morrison, Department of
Anthropology, who will be studying Samoan as he documents the development of
sea tenure systems in
Sāmoa, using archaeology, ethnography, and GIS technology; and

·Kevin
Riddle, Center for Pacfic Islands
Studies, who will be studying Samoan and hopes to eventually join a
nongovernmental or governmental organization working in the Pacific region.
Like Shawn, Kevin began his language study in Samoan as a US Peace Corps
Volunteer.

Applicants for the Pacific Islands FLAS fellowships must be
US citizens or permanent residents and must be enrolled at the University of
Hawai‘i in a program combining area/professional studies and modern foreign
language training in a Pacific language. Applications for the 2005–2006 year
will be accepted in the spring of 2005.

The Study Group on Musics of Oceania of the International
Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) met in the beautiful new Ngarachamayong
Cultural Center in Koror, Palau, 1–2 August 2004, immediately following the
conclusion of the 9th Festival of Pacific Arts (report on page 7).
Micronesian music and dance received more emphasis than in any of the group’s
previous meetings. The first session began with UHM Professor Emerita Dr
Barbara Smith’s playing recordings
and showing photos from her 1963 trip to Palau. Her presentation was followed
by a panel of festival organizers from Palau, who elucidated aspects of
preparing for and organizing the just-concluded festival.

Among the panelists were Bilung Gloria Salii, Queen of Koror, who described the
role of Palauan women leaders; Kathy Kesolei
(BA, anthropology, UHM, 1973), Chair of Team Palau, who described the selection
of participating dancers and their training in the repertoire chosen for this
festival; Faustina Rehuher-Marugg
(MA, Pacific Islands studies, UHM, 1989), Director of the Belau National
Museum, who discussed how the preparation for the festival had followed the
festival’s theme—nurture, regenerate, celebrate—stimulating the young people’s
interest in their heritage and strengthening their sense of identity; and
Howard Charles, who described how
each of Palau’s sixteen states had served as host for one (in a few cases, two)
of the visiting delegations. The session concluded with a brief paper by Dr
Yamagui Osamu (MA,
ethno-musicology, UHM) and the suggestion that if the Airai Bai were recognized
by UNESCO as a masterpiece, it might result in greater recognition of Palau’s
cultural heritage by the world at large.

The afternoon session was a workshop with a dance group from
Ogasawara, Japan. The marching dance that Ogasawaran Islanders learned through
early twentieth-century trade contacts with Micronesia and still maintain as
part of their island’s heritage was compared to the marching dance as performed
in Palau today.

The seven papers presented the second day included one by
Brian Diettrich (PhD student in
ethnomusicology, UHM) on early audio recordings made in Chuuk, one by Dr
Katerina Teaiwa (assistant
professor, UHM CPIS) on Banaban dance, and one with a video by Dr July Flores and Vince Reyes on Guam’s recent cultural reconstruction and
borrowing.

Other participants with UH connections included Dr Jane Moulin (professor of music), Mary Jo Freshley (lecturer in dance), and dance
ethnologist Dr Adrienne Kaeppler
(PhD, anthropology, 1967), Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
and ICTM vice president. The meeting concluded with a farewell party, hosted by
the Palauan women’s organization, which included a dinner of traditional
Palauan food and performances by four Team Palau dance groups and two Palauan
popular music bands.

“Confederates in the Pacific? Hawaii’s Accidental
Involvement in the US Civil War” was the title of a talk given on the Big
Island on 13 July by UHM Department of Anthropology graduate student Suzanne Finney. In the talk, cosponsored by the
Center for Pacific Islands Studies and Volcanoes National Park as part of the
park’s After Dark in the Park series, Finney discussed the burning of four
whaling ships in Pohnpei in 1865 by a confederate ship, the CSS Shenandoah. Finney, who has been engaged in underwater
archaeological work on the wreck remains, discussed recent investigation and
proposed measures to protect this historic resource.

International relations specialist Greg Fry opened the center’s 2004–2005
Occasional Seminar Series with a talk in Honolulu on 26 August, titled “’Our
Patch:’ Australia’s New Interventionism in the South Pacific.” Fry, Hedley Bull
Fellow in the Department of International Relations in the Research School of
Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University, looked at what
is behind the changes in Australia’s way of engaging with the postcolonial
states of the Pacific. The talk was cosponsored by the Pacific Islands
Development Program, EWC.

Dr Sitiveni Halapua,
director of the Pacific Islands Development Program at the East-West Center,
made the Pacific Plan the focus of his 9 September report on the 35th
Pacific Islands Forum Summit. Halapua looked at events leading up to the
presentation and adoption of this plan, some of the deficiencies in the plan,
and what the plan portends. The talk was cosponsored by the Pacific Islands
Development Program, EWC.

Sima Urale,
Fulbright–Creative New Zealand Writer-in-Residence at the center, showed her
award-winning films O Tamaiti, Still
Life, and Velvet Dreams to a standing-room only crowd at Burns Hall on 24
September. Urale introduced the films and responded to questions.

On 28 September, Urale gave a talk titled “Bringing Stories
to Life on the Screen.” Urale showed clips from O Tamaiti, Still Life, and Velvet Dreams, as well as images from her music videos and
advertisements. During the question period, she talked about her methods of
filming and editing, and how her own upbringing influences her filmmaking. Ms
Urale’s September presentations were sponsored by CPIS in association with the
UHM Department of English and the Samoan Language and Culture Program, Pacific
Islanders in Communications (PIC), and the EWC Islands of Globalization
Project.

CPIS Professor Vilsoni Hereniko
was the winner of the third annual Hale Ki‘i‘oni‘oni Award, given to the best
Hawai‘i filmmaker, at the recently concluded Cinema Paradise Film Festival in
Honolulu. His feature film, The Land Has Eyes, premiered last January at the Sundance International Film Festival
and has been screened at festivals in Rotterdam, Moscow, Montreal, and
Brisbane, as well as in Palau during this year's Festival of Pacific Arts. The
film was also screened at the British Museum in London and the Museum of
Anthropology and Archaeology at Cambridge University. The Hale Ki‘i‘oni‘oni Award, sponsored by Movie Museum,
comes with a $3,000 cash award, along with an ‘umeke milo created by calabash artist Alani Apio.

The Land Has Eyes
had its East Coast premiere at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the
American Indian in Lower Manhattan, New York, 30 Sept–2 Oct. Later in October,
Professor Hereniko will be a guest of ImagiNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in
Toronto, the world's largest indigenous film festival. The Land Has
Eyes will be featured as the festival's
opening film. During this year’s Hawaii International Film Festival, 21–31
October, the film will be shown for the first time on the Neighbor Islands of
Kaua‘i(10/28, KCC
Performing Arts Center, 6:00 PM) and the Big Island (Hilo, 10/29, Palace
Theatre, 7:30 PM; Kona, 10/30, Hualalai Cinemas, 5:00 PM). For further
information on The Land Has Eyes,
visit http://www.thelandhaseyes.com.

Professor Jane Freeman Moulin
received a UH Research Relations Grant and support from CPIS to document the
Festival of Pacific Arts in Koror, Palau, in July 2004. Documentation includes
over 70 hours of videotape, 625 still photos, collectanea, and about 10 hours
of symposia audio recordings. Brian Diettrich
(PhD student in ethnomusicology) is currently logging the collection and
transferring it to archival storage media.

The UHM Political Science Department is pleased to welcome
their new assistant professor of indigenous politics, Jody Byrd. Byrd earned a PhD in English
literature from the University of Iowa. Her dissertation, “Colonialism’s
cacophony: Natives and arrivants at the limits of postcolonial theory,”
“examines both the presence and significant absence of indigenous peoples in
Anglophone literatures produced in New Zealand, the Caribbean, and the US, as
well as in the postcolonial theories about those literatures.” Her research
interests include literature and political issues of Aotearoa New Zealand, with
a particular interest in the politics of film and media. Dr Byrd will be
teaching courses in indigenous politics and comparative politics.

Research on deforestation in the Pacific by CPIS affiliate
Associate Professor Barry Rolett,
an archaeologist, and his coauthor, geographer Jared Diamond of UCLA, was reported in the 22 September 2004 issue
of Nature. In an article titled
“Environmental Predictors of Pre-European Deforestation on Pacific islands,”
Rolett and Diamond presented a statistical analysis of geographic and
environmental variables for 81 sites on 69 Pacific islands, from Yap in the
west to Easter Island in the east. Their data indicate that distance from the
Equator—and from other islands— increases the fragility of forests. According
to their analysis, Easter Island’s extreme environmental fragility was at least
part of the reason it suffered “almost the most extreme deforestation and
consequent social and population collapse of any Pacific Island, even though
the Polynesians who colonized Easter colonized hundreds of other islands
without wreaking such extreme impacts.” Rolett and Diamond’s study was also
cited in the 24 September issue of Science, in an article titled “Heaven or Hellhole? Islands’ Destinies Were
Shaped by Geography.”

Congratulations to CPIS affiliate faculty member Michael Hamnett, who was recently appointed
executive director of the Research Corporation of the University of Hawai‘i
(RCUH). The research corporation manages research contracts for the university
and government organizations. In fiscal year 2003, UH brought in $324 million
from outside government and private sources. Hamnett was formerly director of
the Social Science Research Institute at UH Mnoa.

CPIS Assistant Professor Katerina Teaiwa and professor emerita of music Barbara Smith, along with UH dance ethnologist
Judy Van Zile, were featured in an
article in the Honolulu Advertiser on
Sunday, 19 September 2004. The article, by Carol Egan, profiled the background and work of these “three extraordinary
women” and their research on dance, beginning with Barbara Smith’s pioneering
work in ethnomusicology at UH Mānoa in the early 1950s.

Congratulations to Seri Luangphinith, who teaches Pacific
literature at UH Hilo—she received a Francis Davis Award for Undergraduate
Teaching.

New students and various faculty and staff at the new student orientation in August.

The center welcomed ten new students to its MA program with
a two-day orientation program on 19–20 August. Joining the program are

·Ritsuko
Amimoto, BA in geography and a
certificate in Pacific Islands studies, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo. Ritsuko,
who is from Japan, is interested in exploring postcolonial social change and
migration, with a focus on Micronesian migration to Hawai‘i and the US
mainland.

·Maile
Tapaita Drake, BA in anthropology,
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Maile, who is from Tonga, has a wealth of
experience in museum work, including a stint as Collection Manager for the
Pacific at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. In addition to her MA
studies, Maile is the new lecturer in Tongan language at UH Mānoa and the new
collections manager at Bishop Museum.

·Marianna
Lucia Hernandez, BA in English
literature, University of Guam. Marianna, who is from Guam, is dedicated to
helping Chamorros maintain their language and other aspects of their culture
and intends to teach. She was awarded an East-West Center Degree Fellow
scholarship in support of her studies.

·Carla
Hostetter, BA from Brandeis
University with studies in art history, sociology, and anthropology. Carla is
interested in connections between the socially and culturally constructed self
and the physical world, particularly in the context of the Pacific and through
the discipline of art history.

·Naoko
Imoto, BA in social science, Hosei
University. Naoko, who is from Japan, is interested in Pacific peoples’
perceptions of the Second World War period in the Pacific, how they interpret
their historical experiences, and how they present these experiences to younger
generations.

·Monica
LaBriola, BA in peace and conflict
studies, University of California, Berkeley. Monica, who is from California but
more recently lived and taught in the Marshall Islands, is interested in
helping to address the many challenges facing the Marshall Islands. She is the
recipient of an East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellow scholarship.

·Michurlinn
(Kalei) O’Sullivan, BA in
anthropology and English, Stanford University. Kalei, who is originally from
Moloka‘i, Hawai‘i, is interested in the commonalities and issues that join
Hawaiians to other Pacific Islanders. Her interest in the Pacific was
stimulated by the many Pacific Islanders she met and worked with when she
played and coached rugby.

·Kevin
Riddle, BA in political science,
University of Illinois. Kevin’s two years as a US Peace Corp Volunteer in Apia,
Smoa, taught him a great deal
and led to his interest in finding ways to address some of the problems facing
the Pacific region. Kevin was selected as an alternate for an East-West Center
Graduate Degree Fellow scholarship and was awarded a Foreign Language and Area
Studies (FLAS) fellowship.

·Ashley
Noelani Seculla, BA in
anthropology, University of Denver. Ashley, who is from O‘ahu, intends to
obtain a certificate in Hawaiian language and teaching credentials, in order to
teach about the Pacific.

·Chikako
Yamauchi, BA in Japanese language
and literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Chikako, who is from New
Jersey and has an extensive dance background, is interested in how peoples, and
Māori, in particular, negotiate issues of difference through art.

By Barbara Smith, Professor Emerita

The 9th Festival of Pacific Arts, with the theme
“Oltobed a Malt” (nurture, regenerate, celebrate) took place 22–31 July 2004 in
Palau. It was the first time a Micronesian country hosted this major festival,
which takes place every four years. The theme of the festival was particularly
appropriate to Palau, as it approaches the tenth anniversary of its emergence
from trust territory status as an independent republic.

The first festival was undertaken to promote respect for
the traditional performing arts, especially dance, and traditional dance
continues to be the most prominently featured art; however, displays and
activities in other arts have gradually been added. The program for this
festival included applied arts, culinary arts, literary arts, natural history,
navigation and canoeing, performing arts, traditional architecture, traditional
healing arts/Pacific arts on traditional healing, traditional skills and games,
and visual arts, as well as symposia and workshops. The Palau Organizing
Committee, which included Faustina Rehuher-Marugg
(MA in Pacific Studies, UHM, 1989), did a remarkably fine job of managing
logistics, even when rain, which unfortunately was plentiful, required some
alterations, including moving the closing ceremony to the Palau National Gym
instead of holding it outdoors under a full moon. Despite the change of venue,
after the conclusion of the formal ceremony and announcement of American Sāmoa
as the host for the 2008 festival, hosts and visitors danced informally to
popular music performed by Palau’s outstanding Cheiukl era Malt Band until 6:00
am the following morning.

Although Palau is the smallest country to have hosted the
festival, the hospitality it extended to the more than 2,000 members of the
visiting delegations—and to others in attendance—was unsurpassed. The 27 entities
that took part in this festival were, American Sāmoa, Australia, Cook Islands,
Easter Island, Federated States of Micronesia (with performing groups from Yap
and Kosrae), Fiji (with performing groups from Rotuma), French Polynesia, Guam,
Hawai‘i, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue,
Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn
Island, Sāmoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Wallis and
Futuna. Kathy Kesolei, a UH Mānoa
alumna, led Team Palau, the collective designation for the groups that
performed traditional dance from Palau.

Although all the visiting delegations were housed in or
very close to Koror, where most festival activities were centered, each of
Palau’s 16 states hosted one or two of the visiting delegations as a “sister
country.” The Hawai‘i delegation, along with the Tokelau delegation, was hosted
by the people of Peliliu (a site of intense battles between the Japanese and
American forces during World War II). The people of Peliliu not only provided
the Hawai‘i delegation with food and lodging in Koror, but also took the group
to their island for a visit the day following the closing ceremony. The
delegation from Hawai‘i was headed by Mapuana de
Silva. It included Victoria Holt Takamine,
lecturer in Hawaiian chant, UH Mānoa, who participated in the symposium on
legal protection of traditional knowledge, and several UH students and alumni.

The center is pleased to announce the publication, with UH
Press, of Colonial Dis-Ease: US Navy Health Policies and the Chamorros of
Guam, 1898–1941, by Anne Perez Hattori, assistant professor of Pacific
history at the University of Guam. The volume is number 19 in the Pacific
Islands Monograph Series. In it, Hattori examines early twentieth-century US
military colonialism and its cultural impact on the Chamorro people, through
the lens of western medicine. She shows that changes to Guam’s traditional
systems of health and hygiene placed demands not only on Chamorro bodies, but
also on their cultural values, social relationships, political controls, and
economic expectations. In his editor’s note, series general editor David Hanlon calls Hattori’s study “rigorous
in its scholarship, and poetic, even moving, in its attention to local
expressions of experience and understanding.” 2004, 239 pages. ISBN
0-8248-2808-9, US$45.00.

The Institute of Pacific Studies (IPS), University of the
South Pacific, has a number of recent books:

·Laef
Blong Mi: From Village to Nation, by Sethy Regenvanu, tells the story of his life,
beginning on the small island of Uripiv, Malekula, New Hebrides. He grew up
under condominium rule, studied to be a pastor in the Presbyterian Church, and
witnessed the country’s transition to an independent Vanuatu. 2004, 200 pages.
ISBN 982-02-0367-8, paper, US$30.00.

·The
Name Must Not Go Down, by Joe Ketan, analyzes how and why people in
Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea, have incorporated the state into their local
megacycle. 2004, 438 pages. ISBN 982-02-0352-X, paper, $35.00.

·Tahiti,
Beloved & Forbidden, by Marie Claude Teissier-Landgraf, traces the frequently
comical ups and downs of a young girl’s learning about life in an environment
steeped in colonial values. 2004, 370 pages. ISBN 982-02-0369-4, paper,
US$30.00.

·Waa
in Storms, by Teweiariki Teaero, explores, through poetry, art,
and prose, how our various senses are engaged in a dialogue with our
environment in daily life. 2004, 130 pages, with illustrations. ISBN
982-02-0368-6, paper, US$35.00.

Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American
Colonialism, by Noenoe K Silva, is based on her study of more
than seventy-five Hawaiian-language newspapers produced between 1834 and 1948.
By analyzing these texts, Silva is able to refute the long-held idea that
Native Hawaiians passively accepted the erosion of their culture and loss of
their nation. Instead, she shows that they actively resisted political,
economic, linguistic, and cultural domination. Published by Duke University
Press, 2004, 248 pages. ISBN 0-8223-3350-3, cloth, US$74.95; ISBN
0-8223-3349-X, paper, US$21.95.

Bittersweet: An Indo-Fijian Experience, edited by Brij V Lal,
is a collection, crossing generations, that celebrates the 125th
anniversary of the arrival of the first girmitiyas (indentured workers from India) in Fiji. The writers
tell of “schooldays and festivals, family and village relationships, suffering
and discrimination, sharing and achievements, education and psychology, sports
and marriage.” Published by Pandanus Press, 2004, 407 pages. ISBN
1-74076-117-0, paper, A$45.00.

Namoluk Beyond the Reef: The Transformation of a
Micronesian Community, by Mac Marshall, is a case study that looks at continuities
in the cultural identity of emigrants from Namoluk Atoll in the Eastern
Caroline Islands of Micronesia. Mac Marshall is professor of anthropology at
the University of Iowa. Published as a volume in Westview Press’s Case Studies
in Anthropology, 2004, 192 pages. ISBN 0-8133-4163-9, cloth, US$70.00; ISBN
0-8133-4162-0, paper, US$20.00.

A Drag Queen Named Pipi and Other Poems:Fagogo ma Solo, by writer, filmmaker, and painter Dan Taulapapa McMullin, has just been published by
Tinfish Press. 2004, 31 pages, US$9.00. For more information, see the Tinfish
website at http://tinfishpress.com.
McMullin will read from his work at a UHM Department of English Colloquium at
3:00 pm on 14 October. For information, call 808-956-7619.

Kwamra, A Season of Harvest: Poems, by Papua New Guinea poet Russell Soaba, has been published by Anuki
Country Press in Boroko, NCD, Papua New Guinea, 2000, 59 pages. ISBN
9980-85-370-0, paper, US$12.00.

The Theory and Practice of the Music in the Seventh-Day
Adventist Church in Papua New Guinea, by
Jennifer J Jones, provides
background information on the worldwide Adventist Church and its music,
particularly the music of the church in Papua New Guinea since 1908. The volume
is the eighth in the series Apwitihire: Studies in Papua New Guinea Musics,
published by the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies (IPNGS). It is also the
first volume in the new Pacific Adventist University Monograph Series. 2004,
258 pages. ISBN 9980-60-049-0, PGK30.00. Contact IPNGS at ipngs@GLOBAL.NET.PG
for postage and price in other currencies.

Journals

The June 2004 issue of the Journal of the Polynesian
Society, Volume 113 (2), contains an
article on transsexuals and marriage law in the Pacific by Sue Farran; an article on Marquesan culture
history, by Melinda Allen; and an
article entitled “Arohirohi Noa ‘My Spinning Head,’” by Ailsa Smith.

The latest issue of the Pacific Economic Bulletin, Volume 19 (2), focuses on Fiji, with articles on
the recovery in Fiji, the Fiji Sugar Corporation and sugarcane production,
Fiji’s furniture and joinery industry, and the money multiplier in Fiji. It
also contains articles on Pacific tuna fisheries, the institutional environment
for investment and growth in the Pacific, and the labor market in Tuvalu.

The June 2004 issue of Women Today—Pacific, the magazine of the Pacific Women’s Bureau,
Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), has a number of interesting short
articles on issues concerning women and women’s health. Most of these
originated in papers presented at the SPC 9th Triennial Conference
of Pacific Women, the theme of which was “Gender Equality: Commitment or
Tokenism.” For information, write to Pacific Women’s Bureau, BP D5 Noumea
Cedex, New Caledonia, or send an e-mail message to lisaw@spc.int.

Films and Videos

Le Afi Ua Mu: The Fire is Burning, by Shane Seggar, is a documentary that explores the
lives of “Sons of Sāmoa” gang members, juxtaposing scenes of colorful, “almost
utopian,”family-oriented American Sāmoa with the “stark urban greys”
surrounding alienated youths in the metropolitan Los Angeles area. Supported by
Pacific Islanders in Communications, the film is currently being aired on PBS
stations in the United States. Color, 56 minutes, 2003.

Tanim: Instituting Democracy in Tribal Papua New Guinea tells a story of the Apulin people, in Enga
Province, who are struggling to balance an alien electoral system with
traditional approaches to rule, land ownership, and systems of compensation.
Color, 51 minutes, 2003, VHS and DVD. Distributed in the United States and
Canada by Films for the Humanities and Sciences. The price for VHS or DVD is
US$129.95. Tanim was produced by
Faraway Pictures.

Holo Mai Pele is
newly available on DVD. Performed by the dancers of Halau o Kekuhi, under the direction of kumu hula Pualani Kanaka‘ole Kanahele
and Nalani Kanaka‘ole,
Holo Mai Pele tells the epic saga of the
rivalry between Pelehonuamea and her youngest sister, Hi‘iakaikapoliopele.
This one-hour performance was originally broadcast in an adaptation for
Dance in America on PBS. For
educational-use purchase, e-mail ffialua@piccom.org. For home-use purchase
(US$19.99), go to http://store.mountainapplecompany.com.

PIALA 2004 Conference in Majuro

The 13th annual conference of the Pacific
Islands Association of Libraries and Archives, “Literacy: Our Hope, Libraries:
Our Scope, Heritage: Our Property,” will be held in Majuro, Republic of the
Marshall Islands, 15–19 November 2004. For information, see the website at http://www.uog.edu/rfk/piala/piala.html.

Pacific Islands Workshop 2005

The Centre for the Contemporary Pacific at Australian National
University, in conjunction with the International Centre of Excellence in
Asia-Pacific Studies and the National Institute for Asia and the Pacific,
invites graduate students and recent doctoral graduates in the humanities and
social sciences to participate in the Pacific Islands Workshop 2005, to be held
during the Australian National University’s second annual Asia Pacific Week, 31
January–4 February 2005. The workshop will showcase the work of young Pacific
scholars in a formal setting and provide an opportunity for them to network
with their peers and senior academics. Limited funds are available to help
defray travel and accommodation costs. Call for papers and applications for
travel and accommodation assistance close on 31 October2004.
Information on the workshop themes and application procedures is available on
the Asia Pacific week website at http://rspas.anu.edu.au/asiapacificweek/.

Native American Studies

Proposals are being solicited for the Native/Indigenous
Studies Area of the 2005 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture
Association Conference, 9–12 February 2005, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Inquiries and abstracts of 250 words may be sent to Sara Sutler-Cohen at saraksgirl@yahoo.com.
For more information, see the website at http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/. The deadline
for conference registration is 31 December 2004.

Maritime Archaeology and History of the Pacific

The 16th annual Symposium on Maritime
Archaeology and History of Hawai‘i and the Pacific, “Pacific Connections
through the Ages,” will be held 19–21 February 2005, in Honolulu. Suggested
topics include voyaging connections within the Pacific Rim, transpacific
maritime commerce, naval engagements and interactions in the Pacific, and
recent archaeological research of Pacific maritime cultures. The deadline for
proposal abstracts is 15 November 2004. Abstracts may be
emailed to Donald Froning, Jr at froning@mahhi.org.
For more information, see the website at http://www.mahhi.org.

Small Island Cultures Conference

The inaugural conference on Small Island Cultures organized
by Kagoshima University Research Center for the Pacific Islands and the Small
Island Cultures Research Initiative (SICRI), will be held 7–12 February 2005,
at Kagoshima University. For more information about this interdisciplinary
conference on the linguistic, musical, dance, folkloric, visual expressive,
craft, and touristic aspects of small island societies, see the conference
website at http://www.dcms.mq.edu.au/sicri/.

Germany in the Pacific Islands

“Narrating Colonial Encounters: Germany in the Pacific
Islands,” is the title of a conference to be held 19–21 May 2005, at the
University of Washington. This international and interdisciplinary conference
will explore colonial encounters between Germany and the Pacific Islands,
focusing on the rich body of literary and anthropological documents that
narrate the encounter. It will bring together scholars and artists from a
variety of disciplines and institutions around the world. In addition to the
academic panels, there will be a public component, with a possible film showing
by an award-winning Pacific writer and filmmaker. The organizers are Miriam Kahn (anthropology) and Sabine Wilke (Germanics). Those interested in attending
the conference can contact Kahn at mkahn@u.washington.edu.

Pacific Arts Association Symposium

“Pacific Diasporas: People, Art, and Ideas on the Move,”
the eighth international symposium of the Pacific Arts Association (PAA), will
be held 19-23 July 2005 at Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. For
more information, see the PAA website at http://www.pacificarts.org.

Conferences Announced in Previous Newsletters

·“History and the Island Churches of the
Pacific in the 20th Century” will be held at the Pacific Theological
College, in Suva, Fiji, 20–22 October 2004. Contact the Reverend Dr Kambati Uriam at kuriam@ptc.ac.fj
for information.

·“Dialogue Across Cultures: Identity,
Place, Culture,” 12–14 November 2004 in
Melbourne, Australia, is sponsored by the
Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies at Monash University. For information,
contact Stephen Pritchard at Stephen.Pritchard@arts.monash.edu.au.

·The
9th triennial SPACLALS (South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature
and Language Association) conference, “Culture, Crisis, and Change,” will be
held at the National University of Sāmoa, in Apia, 24–26 November 2004. For
information, see the website is http://www.nus.edu.ws/events/South_Pacific.html.

·The
2004 conference of PIPSA (Pacific Island Political Science Association),
“Governance and Stability in the Pacific,” will take place 3–5 December 2004 in
Noumea, New Caledonia. For information, contact PIPSA president Ivan Molloy at imolloy@usc.edu.au.

·The
16th Pacific History Association Conference, “Pacific History:
Assessments and Prospects,” will be held in Noumea, New Caledonia, 5–10
December 2004. Send inquiries to the secretary of the PHA conference committee,
Frederic Angleviel, at BP 4477,
Noumea 98845, New Caledonia; e-mail: angleviel@univ-nc.nc.

·The
2005 meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania will be held
1–5 February 2005 at the Radisson Kaua‘i Beach Resort, on Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i.
Information on the meeting, including proposed sessions, can be found at http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/asao/pacific/hawaiki.html.

·The
20th International Congress for the Historical Sciences will be held in Sydney,
Australia, at the University of New South Wales, 3–9 July 2005. The website is http://www.cishsydney2005.org.

Librarian Position at USP

The library of the University of the South Pacific (USP) in
Suva, Fiji, is seeking a digital library services manager. The appointee will
design, manage, and implement the library’s digitization project, including AV
and multimedia. The purpose of the project is to facilitate online access to
the library’s closed reserve collection, theses, papers, reports, examination
papers, music, photographs, and Pacific material by on-campus and distance
education students of USP.

The position is available for a term of three years and may
be renewed. The opening date for applications was August 2004. Applications
will not be acknowledged unless specifically requested. For application
information, send an e-mail inquiry to personnel@usp.ac.fj.

Micronesian Journal Seeks Submissions

The Micronesian Journal of the Humanities and Social
Sciences is a semiannual peer-reviewed academic
electronic journal dedicated to the study of human thought, behavior, and
culture in Micronesia. The journal is seeking submission of original,
nonpublished articles in the fields of archaeology, communications, cultural
education, cultural anthropology, ethnobiology, ethnography, historic
architecture, historic preservation, history, library studies, linguistics,
literature, politics, social anthropology, tourism, and allied humanities
subjects. For further information, visit the journal website at http://marshall.csu.edu.au/MJHSS.

Postdoctoral Fellowships at U of Canterbury

The University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand,
is advertising two postdoctoral fellowships. For information on a fellowship in
the school of law, to examine models of regional governance in the Pacific,
contact Geoff Leane at geoff.leane@canterbury.ac.nz. For information on
a fellowship at the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, to examine
community-centered Pacific resource-management models, contact Karen Nero at karen.nero@canterbury.ac.nz.

Pacific Studies Association in Australia

The inaugural meeting of the newly formed Pacific Studies Association
of Australia (PSAA) will be held 9 October 2004. The meeting convenor is
Professor Brij V Lal at Australian
National University, Canberra. The PSAA is intended to be an all-encompassing
organization, incorporating all disciplines and areas of research and teaching
on the Pacific Islands (humanities, social and natural sciences, health, law,
environment, etc). For more information, contact Professor Lal at brijlal@coombs.anu.edu.au.

PIC Short Film Initiative 2005

Pacific Islanders in Communications has announced
production funds for Pacific Islander projects destined for National Public
Television in the United States. Deadline for applications is January 2005. For
application and guidelines, see http://www.piccom.org.